Visual art

Chromatopia is an astonish exhibition about the history of the production of colour in art. It explains how natural materials – from minerals mined from the earth to plants and insects – have been used to create colour in works of art, and clothing and other fabrics.…

The Howard Arkley exhibition at Tarrawarra Museum of Art in the Yarra Valley is excellent and I highly recommend it. I knew only the suburban house paintings and it was fascinating to see the breadth of his work. I was particularly impressed by his later paintings of the built environment featuring factories and freeways rather than suburban houses.…

Last week I spent 3 days in Sydney with my girlfriend. The primary purpose of the trip was to see the Yoko Ono retrospective exhibition at the MCA, which was well worth the effort. It was better than I expected and genuinely uplifting.…

After my first visit to London in 2010, I wanted to write about some of the paintings I had seen at the National Portrait Gallery. This proved impossible as the gallery’s website contained only very small images that inadequately represented the paintings, and it refused to allow their reuse, even for non-commercial purposes.…

Two examples of Adnate’s recent Aboriginal child portraits in Fitzroy. The first is on the south side of Gertrude St between Brunswick and Nicholson streets, and the second is on Fitzroy St just south of the corner with Johnston St. There are more images on Adnate’s blog.…

By Will Coles on the Leicester St corner of Brunswick St. Inspired by bank robbers according to the artist’s website, I interpreted this colourful balaclava sculpture as a statement of solidarity with Pussy Riot.

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